Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here goes for today's big results and the one big upset which will, I know surprise you all. That dear readers, is the silencing of the screaming eagle at University Heights. Yes, sir, Boston College is going to start the season with a defeat. Now isn't that too bad? But as an accurate forecaster, I have to be honest with my public. The truth must out, no matter how much the hurt...
Significance. Premier Meighen's defeat was deemed so abysmal last week that many Conservatives hinted he should resign his leadership of the Conservative Party...
...year Mr. Forecast was engaged by the CRIMSON in the capacity of official football prognosticator. His judgments were practically infallible throughout the season, but his greatest coup was not achieved until the last two games of the schedule when he offered to wager his shirt that the University would defeat Brown (Ed. note: Harvard 3, Brown 0), and that Yale would find it impossible to down the Crimson eleven (Ed. note: Harvard 0, Yale...
Vexed, chagrined Congressman Upshaw announced: "Private investigations have revealed that there is indisputable evidence of more than $100,000 of vote money having been sent into this district to defeat...
...defeat the movement of the "Italian Romanists" to make Christopher Columbus's birthday a legal holiday...